Adventure NZ

Lockdown reflections 2021
Tuesday, 19 October 2021
The 4x4 Explorer story
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Adventure time
Tuesday, 19 October 2021
Suzuki’s delightful Jimny Safari is your passport to summer fun.
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Dreaming of dusty summer driving
Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Looking back on a splendid long weekend in the Clarence Valley.
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West Coast Caper
Tuesday, 14 September 2021
The race was on… well sort of…ish. We hit the servo at Wanaka to fill up and grab a medicinal pie then set off towards Lake Hawea and over the Haast Pass arriving just before 9.00pm.
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When half a day turns into two
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
Queueing up in Picton or Wellington for the Inter-island ferry has to mark the beginning of the greatest adventure any Kiwi Overland enthusiast could have.
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Last of the summer wine
Wednesday, 18 August 2021
With about a 90 percent return rate, most of our guests have become life-long friends and organise between themselves when they are coming back for a trip.
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Poutu Lighthouse Weekend
Poutu Lighthouse Weekend
Tuesday, 20 July 2021
Close to Home correspondent Richard Soult of 4x4Explorer.co.nz certainly gets around; last month he reported from the headwaters of the Rakaia River in the heart of the South Island, th
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Mathias and Rakaia River weekend
Mathias and Rakaia River weekend
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
With a new house to settle into and a container to unpack, 4x4Explorer Richard Soult was all set to stay very ‘Close to Home’ of a weekend in late May...
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Project $12K Jeep Cherokee - maintenance and repairs update
Project $12K Jeep Cherokee - maintenance and repairs update
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Owning an older vehicle often means more regular maintenance issues, especially one that is over 25 years old, and Project 12K is no different. Custodian Ashley Lucas explains.
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New NZ-made diesel tent heater
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Unlike a lot of Kiwis, I really feel the cold, and as I get older, I am enjoying less and less the prospect of climbing into a cold tent and sleeping bag at the end of a hard day’s driving.
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Up Eyre Creek
Tuesday, 25 May 2021
It was a case of ‘third time’s the charm’ for 4x4Explorer’s Richard Soult on his latest attempt to find out what lies behind Shepherds Creek hut, in the Eyre Creek area west of Athol in Nor
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Project $12K Jeep Cherokee Maintenance and repairs update
Tuesday, 25 May 2021
It’s been a while since we last updated Project 12K, probably so long some of you might have even forgotten we still had a budget project Jeep Cherokee.
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Oxford Series One
Tuesday, 25 May 2021
Recently I was invited by Mike Sheppard, Chairman of the Canterbury Combined 4WD Clubs, to attend the Basil Phelps skills competition day where I was introduced to ‘Oxford’ arguably the most famous
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Barn bay or bust!
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
The Otago Land Rover Club has been trekking in and out of the supposedly inaccessible Barn Bay in remote South Westland for years.
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Putting the High into High Country Journeys
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
High Country Journeys describe their latest Great Central Otago and Mackenzie Explorer Tour as ‘a six-day/seven-night package, popular with clients looking for something with a little more
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Four Seasons in one day
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
4x4Explorer Richard Soult is forced to come up with Plans Bee-through-Zee as a sudden midsummer cold snap wrecks havoc on his original guided route through the Central Otago high country.
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Return to Ngaroma
Return to Ngaroma
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Now very much a farming district south-east of Te Awamutu, Ngaroma was once a thriving timber town.
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It's a small world
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Getting together with a bunch of like-minded individuals in New Zealand’s great outdoors is what Overlanding is all about… as 4x4Explorer Richard Soult discovered on a recent trip ‘up the M
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Manawatu 4WD Club Charity Fundraising Safari 2021
Manawatu 4WD Club Charity Fundraising Safari 2021
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
Rain affected play on this year’s Manawatu 4WD Club charity Safari in the remote Waitotora Valley in late January.
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The Motu Safari 2021
The Motu Safari 2021
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
The Motu Safari was back on the calendar this summer with the same mix of stunning East Coast tracks and trails but a new simplified three-day format.
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Marble hill on my mind
Marble hill on my mind
Wednesday, 17 February 2021
He’s passed by literally hundreds of times over the years but it was only recently that 4x4Explorer Richard Soult decided to stop and spend some quality time around Marble Hill on the Lewis Pas
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Close to Home – Richard & Gav’s excellent adventure
Sunday, 17 January 2021
With a week before everyone else arrived, Richard Soult was able to show Aucklander Gavin some of Central Otago’s more remote tracks and trails.
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Join the (4x4) club
Sunday, 17 January 2021
4WD club membership offers many advantages, as NZ4WD magazine publisher Cathy Parker can attest.
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Remembering the ‘Forgotten World’
Sunday, 17 January 2021
Remote it definitely is, but as Weekend Drive correspondent David Coxon says, if you make the effort to drive there, the Republic of Whangamomona has a lot to offer.
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Summer escape in the High Country
Sunday, 17 January 2021
Before heading to Siberia last year to drive the BAM Railway support road (see story NZ4WD Nov 2020) Bay of Plenty retirees Martin and Jeanette Knudsen ‘limbered up’ with a ‘Summer Escape’
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